UMC Health System

Located in Lubbock, Texas, UMC Health System has developed a strong culture adhering to the mantra Service is Our Passion, which sustains us as the employer of choice and the provider of choice for the West Texas and Eastern New Mexico region.

Our mission is to serve all by providing safe, high quality care; to achieve excellent financial performance; and to train tomorrow’s healthcare professionals as the primary teaching hospital for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center of Lubbock. UMC has a strong and enduring partnership with Texas Tech which helps fulfill UMC’s mission and helps support Tech’s academic pursuits of education and research. UMC has helped Texas Tech train more than 10,000 healthcare professionals. As one grows, the other prospers.

Together with UMC Physicians, we have been able to serve more patients than ever! UMC Physicians operates almost 35 clinics in Lubbock and the South Plains. UMC Physicians is a physician practice management group formed by UMC in 1996 to manage the hospital’s Community Health Centers and to develop a broad base of primary care patients that would support the hospital and medical school.

TTUHSC of Lubbock educates students—from our area and around the globe– in the many, evolving fields of healthcare. We provide a spectrum of patient care and conduct valued biomedical and clinical research. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center graduates more health care professionals than any other medical school in the state of Texas! Nationally recognized for innovative programs, academic achievement, and our cutting-edge research, we are training the next generation of highly qualified health professionals. To date we have trained more than 25,000 health care professionals who are serving patients– the 2.75 million people in our immediate service area and many around the world– and driving medical discovery in tangible, life-changing ways.